I’ve recently picked up emacs as a general editor to replace gedit and vim. The one thing I miss terribly about vim is the git syntax highlighting. I have tried git-el, apparently with no luck.
The vim git-commit highlighting features a “subject line” highlight for the first fifty characters of the first line of the commit message, “error” highlights for the second line, comments, and red and green highlighting for added or removed files (which are themselves written in the precomposed comments.)
Is there a similarly functional syntax highlighting for emacs, and if so, how would I install it?
I don’t really do emacs but I did some quick searching and found git-modes and magit. I imagine that would get you started down the right road.